Middle age ends and senescence begins, The day your…

Middle age ends and senescence begins, the day your descendant's outnumber your friends.

— Ogden Nash

“Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends”

— Ogden Nash

“One age ends, and another begins. It is the way of things. But, it doesn't happen all at once.”

— Derek Donais

The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence.

— George C. Williams

Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light.

— Marty Nemko

“Age doesn't mean Maturity but Senescence”

— Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only…

— Dara Torres

The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.

— S. Jay Olshansky

We've spent the last few millennia aware that senescence is horrible but knowing nevertheless that it's inevitable. We've had to find some mechanism to…

— Aubrey de Grey

As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

— Anthony Burgess

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

— Ogden Nash

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

— Ogden Nash

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I…

— Julie Burchill

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. -…

— Anne Tyler

Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that…

— Elizabeth Gaskell